Saturday, 7 October 2023

Chereionites And Ythrians

A lot of fictional history is understatedly summarized in The Day Of Their Return:

the planets, Chereion, Ythri and Aeneas, are terrestroid but smaller, colder and drier than Earth;

Chereionites colonized appropriate planets, including Aeneas;

they were possibly wiped out by their telepathic parasites;

the parasites have survived on various planets;

Ythrians, colonizing those planets, encounter the parasites;

having realized the parasites' nature, the Ythrians exterminate them;

before any Ythrians had entered the Virgilian System, human beings had already colonized Aeneas in order to study the inhabitants of the sister planet, Dido;

Aenean tinerans are addicted to the emotional stimulation provided by the parasites.

Thus, over time, Chereionites, Ythrians and human beings have interacted in unexpected ways. 

3 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

Which begs the question of why the Chereionites didn't twig to the threat of the parasites...

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

They became addicted slowly as the slinkers power grew?

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

I agree, I don't think addiction to those telepathic animals was a major factor in the extinction of the Chereionites. There had to be other, deeper causes for that.

Ad astra! Sean